I just discovered this from way back in 2001 when I had a solo piece at The Physics Room Trust in Christchurch as part of the cool and very brainy (sorry for yet another pun) “Neural Notations” group show. Then it lead me here…to The Physics Room Trust site, which I’d tried to find after the earthquake and for some reason couldn’t. Perhaps it was down for a while. I’m glad to see that they are up and doing stuff, even though their Tuam Street building is still inaccessible.

Over the last month or so I’ve been redesigning our web site and finally made the decision to go live, or nearly live, tonight.

It is a work in progress…in the next month or two I will be posting bios, media, contact info and other nice tidbits. I may even put up an archive area for some of our older, quainter stuff that dates back to the birth of the web when I was busy experimenting with ideas about virtuality.

Meanwhile, we have this blog and a nice splash page with a place to sign up for our mailing list.

Thanks for your patience!

http://www.kqed.org/arts/performance/article.jsp?essid=77613

“One of the artists performing in Third Strike, Jennifer Gwirtz (who is performing with Lisa Claybaugh), first performed in SOMArts in 1996 when she says the building was a ‘cavernous raw space’ with random, unexplained ‘architectural details.’ Randomness is status quo for Gwirtz: ‘I’ve performed in more than my share of cellars, offices, galleries, bathtubs, a laundromat, a car, and for the surveillance cameras above ATMs.’”

It’s an evening of 2 minute performances from 6pm until the wee hours. We’ll be performing our new bit, “The Scared Catfish Duet,” at exactly 7:20. If you get there at 7:18 you will get to see us getting into the hole, which should be a fun and interesting bit of entertainment, considering how small we both are.

Exhibition trailer: http://youtu.be/R0RU4prECYU/
Advance tickets: http://100performances.eventbrite.com/
Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/events/250518161661516/

“Spies” is a new piece based on the same technique that I used in “Sundial” back in 2005. This time Laura, Lisa and Patrick Simms (our new member!) will be joining me. It should be a very fun performance with so many exciting and thought-provoking acts.

Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert are two artists who, like John and I, have worked together for years both in life and art. They make wonderful stuff.

Hello all,

At the end of January we had a lovely time performing the 15 or so minutes of “Elephant” that could be done in a 3′x6′ space at Nicole Gluckstern’s apartment in the Mission. What a great time! What a great audience! Here she is writing about the new (since the old becomes new again once people forget that there’s nothing new on this earth…) trend in home theater.

The Performant: Homing instinct | San Francisco Bay Guardian.

There is also a Home Theater Festival going on right now. I’ll post a link when I find it. You can also do a search on FaceBook for “International Home Theater Festival.”